7 Quotes & Sayings By Bakhtiyar Ali

Bakhtiyar Ali is an author, film-maker and social entrepreneur. He is the creator of the award-winning TV series 'The Last Mogul' (BBC's Top 100 Greatest Documentaries). He has written 13 books including 'The Secret of Samarkand' (selected by the New York Times as one of the "Ten Best Books of 2009"), 'The Shahnameh' (translated into 16 languages), 'Khalifastan', 'Mogulistan', 'A Guide to Iran', 'The History of Afghanistan', 'Nations of Afghanistan', 'Kabuliwallah', and 'Lonely Planet's Top 10 Travel Guides'. For over ten years he has lived in Kabul, Afghanistan, where he founded the Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies Read more

He is a founder member of the British Humanist Association, a member of Global Humanism, a board member of The Interfaith Foundation, a trustee of The Intercultural Mosque Initiative, a Fellow of the British Academy, and a member of Churchill College Cambridge.

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Dreams are often dangerous. Those endowed with an imagination don't run a way from this world, They think about the fate of all its creatures. They worry even about the flowers and the ants. But someone with a dream wants to make everyone service his dream. Ghazalnus Bakhtiyar Ali
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In the beginning, science is a thing imagined; in the beginning, war is a thing imagined; in the beginning, love is a thing imagined; in the beginning, even God is a thing imagined. There is nothing that has not first been imagined. Even before there are words, there is imagination. Bakhtiyar Ali
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Everything in this world is the fruit of the imagination. If there is no imaginary garden in our head, we can't plant a real one. Bakhtiyar Ali
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I think that after a revolution a man needs a few years to get used to the new era. I knew from my limited and worthless experience that those who tear down and destroy one era cannot build another. Just as weapons can't suddenly become flowers, a killer can't suddenly turn gardener. Hasan-i Tofan, an earlier killer and member of "The Finishing-Off Sports Club Bakhtiyar Ali
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I think that after a revolution a man needs a few years to get used to the new era. I knew from my limited and worthless experience that those who tear down and destroy one era cannot build another. Just as weapons can't suddenly become flowers, a killer can't suddenly turn gardener. Hasan-i Tofan, an earlier killer and member of "The Finishing-Off Sports Club Bakhtiyar Ali
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I think that after a revolution a man needs a few years to get used to the new era. I knew from my limited and worthless experience that those who tear down and destroy one era cannot build another. Just as weapons can't suddenly become flowers, a killer can't suddenly turn gardener. Hasan-i Tofan, a killer and an earlier member of "The Finishing-Off Sports Club Bakhtiyar Ali